Staff Software Engineer

• Architect systems spanning multiple teams, anticipating future use cases and designing to minimise the cost of change rather than optimising for the current sprint
• Drive convergence of shared services across business units, actively resisting fork-and-diverge and reducing drift
• Set code quality, testing and review standards, including conventions that make AI-assisted development safe at speed
• Lead difficult investigations across domains and mentor others on systematic debugging
• Own observability for the domain and build a culture of it across teams using operational and business metrics
• Lead secure design reviews and partner with security to apply security strategy, including handling secrets and PII according to policy
• Partner with fraud and risk stakeholders to build controls into the domain and balance fraud loss, chargeback exposure and customer friction
• Ensure epics and cross-team dependencies are broken down, understood and resolvable without teams waiting on each other; drive short cycle time
• Mentor across teams, facilitate cross-team decisions, and decide engineering work based on strategy while contributing to organization-level engineering strategy

• 8+ years building and operating production software, with a track record of owning architecture that spans several teams and outliving the org chart it was designed under
• Deep experience in at least one of DZ's stacks (TypeScript, Go, C#) with the range to reason credibly across all of them, plus solid Postgres and AWS depth
• Evidence of consolidating forked or duplicated services, or of setting standards that other teams adopted because they were good, not because they were mandated
• A security and fraud lens applied by default: OWASP fluency, secure design instincts, and an understanding of what abuse looks like on a payments and digital-fulfilment surface
• Influence without authority: the ability to build relationships across teams, foster healthy disagreement, and guide a group of strong engineers to a decision they'll actually stand behind
• Judgement about cost and value, including where AI leverage genuinely saves time and where it introduces risk that someone will pay for later

• Immediate, large-scale impact on a high-growth business
• Top-of-the-market compensation packages
• Work alongside top regional talent, with team members from Talabat, Careem, Etisalat, and more